Worlds Apart (5)
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–12 · 2018 · Est. 12.5 hour read

Worlds Apart (5)

By James Riley

Part of the Story Thieves series

Worlds torn apart, imaginations lost. Can they reunite and save reality?

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479 pages· 90,558 words· Est. 12.5 hour read
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Owen and Bethany face a shattered reality, split between fiction and nonfiction. With imaginations erased, Owen is trapped in a bleak future, while Bethany, now a sidekick, discovers her world is fading. To defeat the villain Nobody and restore balance, they must risk everything. Will they reunite and save both worlds before it's too late?

From the publisher

Owen and Bethany try to find their way back to each other after the fictional and nonfictional worlds are torn apart in this fifth and final book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves—which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal—from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.

Bethany and Owen have failed. The villain they have come to know as Nobody has ripped asunder the fictional and nonfictional worlds, destroying their connection. Bethany has been split in two, with her fictional and nonfictional selves living in the separate realms.

But weirdly, no one seems to mind. Owen—and every other nonfictional person—have lost their imaginations, so they can’t picture their lives any differently. Then Owen gets trapped in a dark, dystopian reality five years in the future, where nothing is needed more desperately than the power to imagine.

Fictional Bethany is thrilled to be training with her father as his new sidekick, Twilight Girl—until she realizes that the fictional reality will fade away completely without the nonfictional world to hold it together.

In this final installment of the genre-bending Story Thieves series, Owen and Bethany will be forced to risk everything to defeat Nobody and save multiple realities.

At a glance
Format
Pages
479
Words
90,558
Reading age
8–12
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
790L
Themes & topics
Books about imaginationBooks about friendshipBooks about books and librariesBooks about superheroesBooks about alternate realities
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
5.6
F&P level
~S
AR points
14
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
194560
Publication
Published
March 5, 2019
First published
March 20, 2018
Publisher
Aladdin
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781481485753

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